Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Not the Best Monroe Book I Have Read

Skyward by Mary Alice Monroe

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Honestly this one didn’t work when you focused on the adult characters. There was also a wise old black man helping out the white people around him and that didn’t sit that well with me either. I think the biggest issue is that Harris was selfish about everything and Ella should have stayed professional. The characters of Elijah, Brady, and Clarice are the only parts of the book I enjoyed reading about. Monroe backed off on incorporating Brady into more of the story and I […]

What We Leave Behind

How Not to Die Alone by Richard Roper

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Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This book will be released on May 28, 2019.  So, this was a thought provoking and sobering at times read.  I did laugh a few times, but a few times while finishing I thought to myself will I die alone and if I do, will anyone be left after to miss me and come round to check in on me. My family does a very good job of […]

“Even things that needed you could hurt you in the taking.”

Riven by Roan Parrish

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This book surprised me. Ostensibly it’s a contemporary LGBTQ romance, but I’ve read quite a few m/m romance novels and this one stands out, in a good way. Riven is about two musicians, Theo and Caleb, falling in love. Theo is a 25(ish) year-old rock star, the lead singer and songwriter of a popular rock band. Theo loves music but hates everything about being a rock star- his bandmates were a group long before he showed up and while they need him to be successful, […]

Every Pride and Prejudice retelling is an excuse to post Firth gifs

Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

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Two Pride and Prejudice retellings in a row that I’ve enjoyed! It’s a February miracle. I actually liked this one a bit better than Pride, but they’re both good and worth reading. The draw of Unmarriageable isn’t in the way the plot points are reinterpreted because all in all, it sticks pretty closely to the original story. The draw is in the early 2000’s Pakistani setting which is similar enough to the original English setting for the plot points to make sense and different enough […]

Cozy re-read.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

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Quick review for a re-read. I still love this book. It’s still a great character study of Cath, who has anxiety and abandonment issues, and has huddled in on herself like a turtle, afraid to put out feelers to the outside world. She uses reading and writing fanfiction as an outlet for her creativity, and a way to forget herself for a while, but she wants to be a professional writer, and that means a type of writing she isn’t comfortable with yet, a type […]

The best LGBTQ romance series I’ve read, despite all the hockey (dear god, so much hockey)

Breakaway by Avon Gale

Save of the Game by Avon Gale

Power Play by Avon Gale

Empty Net by Avon Gale

Coach’s Challenge by Avon Gale

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I’ve been a lifelong romance reader (I started reading my mother’s Jude Deveraux and Judy Garland paperbacks when I was 13), but for the past few months I’ve been really into reading LGBTQ romance, specifically m/m romance. I started with the gold standards, Sarina Bowen/Elle Kennedy’s “Him,” N.R. Walker’s “The Weight of It All,” Christina Lauren’s “Autoboyography,” and then Sarina Bowen’s “The Understatement of the Year” before I started searching out other authors/books. Kindle Unlimited has a lot of options, and most of them are…not […]



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